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624
VII. FORESTRY OF SWEDEN’.
These figures show a considerable increase in the State revenues from
the forests — an increase which for the last few years partly depends
also on the exceptionally favourable conjunctures in the world’s market.
Concerning the above mentioned different kinds of public forests,
we may give some short guiding data. Like questions of exchequer ia
general, this subject would properly require a rather explicit account to
be fully comprehensible to foreign readers; on account of limited space,
only short indications can naturally here be given.
The Crown parks. As mentioned above, their area has during the
last three decades been more than tenfolded. This increase is still
going on, partly because a great deal of Crown land remaining after
the »Delimitation» (see p. 621) is transferred to the Crown parks, partly
because the forests left by the State to the disposal of saw-mills and
mines return to the Crown, partly through purchases of forests, partly and
finally because forests of the Crown domains are organized as Crown parks.
The purchases of ground by the State for creating or enlarging
Crown parks, has since 1875 been of the following extent1:
Years. Area. Purchase money. Per hectare.
1875.... ....................1,876-09 hectares. 51,634 00 kronor. 28 kr.
1876 80......................11,368 20 » 778,558 98 > 68 »
1881 85 ......................952-60 . 100,48786 » 105 »
1886/90......................44,660-69 > 1,353,823 70 » 30 »
1891 95......................46,995-72 » 2,530,689 42 > 50 »
1896 00......................135,769-33 _7,953,416 26 » 59 »
Total 241,622 63 hectares. 12,7*8,60* 72 kronor. 53 kr.
These purchases of ground have principally been made in the
southern parts of the country.
The area of Not organized remaining State ground, inclusive of Crown
land not yet delimited (see p. 623, note 2), amounted at the end of 1900
to 689,085 hectares. These forests are being reduced, principally because
certain grounds are gradually transferred to Crown parks.
Forests belonging to the Crown domains let on lease have a total area
of 171,518 hectares. The area of these forests is also decreasing, partly
through the sale of smaller farms, and partly because certain forests
become reserved for Crown parks.
The forests of civil tenures generally belong to the residences of
bailiffs and constables and have an area of 14,056 hectares, which is still
somewhat diminishing through the drawing in of the residences, which
are then let or sold.
The drift-sand plantations of the State, situated within the Län? of
Blekinge, Kristianstad, and Halland, comprise 1,333 hectares.
Forests, mostly belonging to the State and under its administration,
and which have been given up to various other purposes, are in the
tabular summary on page 623 entered under the title B. Under this
head come the different kinds of forests mentioned below.
1 An hectare = 2 47 acres. A krona = 110 shilling or 0 268 dollar.
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